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For two days in October, more than 20 executives of nonprofit groups in Harlem came together at Columbia Business School for a leadership training program.
You probably think you know how to wash your hands, but Elaine Larson could tell you for sure.
An infectious disease expert who has published more than 200 papers on hand hygiene, Larson is the go-to source for commonly asked questions such as whether anti-bacterial soaps work better than regular soaps (no), whether alcohol hand sanitizer is more effective than hand-washing (yes) and whether you should really wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice. (Not necessarily, just be sure to scrub between the fingers and under fingernails.)
The 1940s have always held a special allure for Griffin, who grew up hearing “stories about the era that just made it very interesting to me, very glamorous and mysterious,”
English professor Rachel Adams doesn’t exactly know when or why she became interested in freaks, but when it came time to write her dissertation—later her first book—the topic she chose was freak shows and the American cultural imagination.
“Journalism, much like other fields, is having a moment where data and data technologies are affecting its core practices."
Shree Nayar has designed a camera that could improve the way children learn about science and one another.
Columbia Global Center Europe kicks off its first-ever Festival des Écrivains du Monde—World Writers' Festival—this weekend, bringing more than 30 renowned writers from a host of countries to give talks and read from their works at venues in central Paris.
Does Edmund Phelps believe that Europe and America still have what it takes to create “mass flourishing,” that unique combination of wealth and creativity that gave rise to one of the most dynamic periods in human history?
Who’s on the Ballot, a new website that explains just that, was born out of a friendly conversation between SIPA Professor Ester Fuchs and her former student, William von Mueffling (CC’90, BUS’95).
University President Lee C. Bollinger has appointed Professor David Madigan as Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Barry Bergdoll is coming back uptown.
Statistician. Technologist. Artistic collaborator. And now, journalism professor.
Having spent virtually all his career working with numbers, Mark Hansen finds himself joining forces with the wordsmiths at Columbia Journalism School. “I feel like a spy in the house of Pulitzer,” he jokes.
When the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation was established at Columbia and Stanford in 2012, part of its $30 million endowment was earmarked for what founder Helen Gurley Brown called “Magic Grants.”